BoW 3rd Annual Gaming Awards: 2016 Nominations Close This Weekend
April 21, 2017 by warzan
It's now time to launch the BoW 3rd Annual Gaming Awards where we begin looking at what YOU loved from last years (2016) immense gaming extravaganza.
Voting Closes This Weekend!
Things have expanded this year which means new categories and new criteria and the Nominations are now OPEN for you to go and tell us about your favourites. Everything you need to know can be found here...
BoW 3rd Annual Gaming Awards Nomination Form
...where we explain how you vote and what you can vote for in each category. The dates, for example, that you can choose a game from runs between 1st January 2016 & 31st December 2016 giving you a nice and easy window to look at.
The Categories
As mentioned above we've been looking at some new categories this year and they break down thusly...
- Best Board Game of 2016
- Best Card Game of 2016
- Best Miniatures Game of 2016
- Best Role-Playing Game of 2016
- Best Board Game Expansion of 2016
- Best Card Game Expansion of 2016
- Best Miniatures Game Expansion of 2016
- Best Role-Playing Game Expansion of 2016
- Best Hobby or Gaming Accessory of 2016
- Best Terrain Product of 2016
- Best Gaming Artwork of 2016
- Best Sculpt of 2016
- Best Paint Job of 2016
...which means we should get a fantastic look at the world of tabletop gaming throughout 2016.
Win A Mystery Box
You can also win yourself a Mystery Box of goodies by filling in the nomination form and having your say throughout this process. This is intentionally a mystery as to not sway the voting in any way towards a particular company but rest assured it will come with a wealth of awesomeness within.
Voted For By YOU
Importantly, this is YOU who vote and make this possible. We might curate the results but you are the ones, the community at large, who determine who is deserving of a BoW Award at the end of this. We'll be talking about the process more throughout the following few months and make sure to watch The Weekender for more information.
Make sure to...
- Share on Social Media and get your friends involved
- Let companies know you're voting for them!
- Share on forums and blogs (with permission) so we get a fantastic array of answers from the community
Enjoy nominating your favourite games...
...and bring on the awards!
I’ll talk more about this in the morning, but if anyone is interested, the dates of this have shifted as there is a small possibility this might become a physical event next year, and it needed to move in the schedule for that to happen.
It’s a small possibility, but heck worth looking into 🙂
I can see it now, “and its the BoW team getting out of the limo for the long walk on the Warren Meets Mat top pick”. You can see them glide around the mats printed terrain as it looks so real. They must feel like Titans from Mythic Battles Pantheon as they enter the lobby.
lol
Walk of shame. 🙂
Fab stuff… 🙂
an event? cool! every other industry has award ceremonies where those that work hard all year get shitfaced, why not the gaming community? also as BoW is growing and effectively becoming the hub of general miniature gaming community why not have them host it!
question is where? lead belt? or somewhere more glamorous…like…Aldershot :p
@warzan This might sound like a bit of a dumb question, but, I would love to give my input to the nominations but I only have hands on experience with a few categories. Is it ok to give what I think is best, eg. a card game or expansion, that I can only evaluate on face value, not having got to play it myself? Or is it best to leave it to people who actually have the games in hand to recommend?
It isn’t necessary to vote in every category. Just the ones you feel comfortable that you can nominate what you feel is a worthy winner.
Ah right. I will get some nominations in later on today.
Thanks for the response.
no holds barred, fish hooks and gouging allowed.
My problem is remembering what came out in 2016!
It’s a good excuse to watch old weekenders I suppose 🙂
Nice! I like the idea of an event!
Glad to see Best Sculpt in there this year 🙂
hmmmm so it may be like a award show bootcamp weekend? That would be interesting. I can barely begin to imagine what the coverage would be like and who would attend.
I wonder who would represent GW? 🙂
I’m voting for Lloyd’s Sponge Rocks.
In every category I hope
And the award for Best Card Game Expansion of 2016 goes to …………..Lloyd for Sponge Rocks! 😀
The mystery box could even be a boat.
What if its a box full of incrementally smaller boxes with a single D6 in the centre?
We’very taken a leaf out of Peter Molyneux’s book
Ooo a physical event sounds fun! Linked to this the tagline below with the previous award winners has 2015 as the date rather than 2016??
I was kinda missing an indie-games section. So fav indie -game on best miniatures game it is!
Could even have best Kickstarter!
Best kickstarter is a bit of a difficult one because of delivery times. if it is one that goes bad after the awards it’s going to cause all sorts of issues. Look at the storm that occurred over Prodos. Besides all games will be eligible in the regular categories.
What do you mean by indie-game? Any game is eligible in a relavent categories?
Indeed. Independent from what?
Actually, that’s a good point though re KS games. Guessing we are only including games that DELIVERED in 2016 not funded in 2016?
The date it goes on sale to the general public is the key one. If it’s a KS that is never made available to the public, which is very rare, then the delivery date is fine.
It’d be easy to weed out the games with poor years long delivery process. People won’t vote for them.
You could have two categories for Kickstarters- one for delivered products, and one for a sort of “best run Kickstarter” or “most promising kickstarter.”
Either of those would work pretty well.
Although, from what I’ve seen, Games Workshop stuff just wins these fan awards. Maybe they deserve something for Blood Bowl, but there really are a lot of fantastic games and minis that don’t get as recognized because the fan base here is pretty skewed.
Even if you had an award for just the campaign and tried to make it clear that’s all it was for, if the winner turned out to have a toxic fulfillment then that’s all people will remember. It’s an unnecessary minefield. If best delivered KS product is just for the product itself, then it should be at retail by then and thus eligible for the regular best award. If it includes the campaign, you’d be asking people to think two to three years back. Thinking back to last year is hard enough for me Popularity will obviously play a part,… Read more »
Yeah I was wondering what an Indie game was as well
battle of little big horn?
Very good
danke
damm it was hard to pick best painted but i think this is my winner Archaon by KAHA Katarzyna Górska
http://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/11093
That’s some great technique, but it has some serious center of interest problems.
Another vote for Lloyd’s lumps
Voted, hard to place some and also some categories aren’t really caught. Ie best starter box as a few existing games got new ones etc.
I would like to see best sculpt widened a bit as well to damn hard if you look across everything.
Where do I go to vote? When it start?
You can nominate by following the link in the article 🙂
Is there a list anywhere of all the 2016 releases?
Not as far as I’m aware.
A physical event. This has come a long way from the Turn 8 where this first started.
I must have just missed it, but when did they post the results for this. Last year my friends and I got together for a painting party and watched while we hobbied and we we’re going to do it again. Can someone point me in the direction of where they posted the results?
Still don’t think it’s been done
@Torros thanks, I’m glad I didn’t miss it.